Important data for your business
YOU SHOULD KNOW
If you have a business either as a professional or a company or work for any of these options, regardless of your role you should know these facts as they will help you make decisions…
There are over 3 billion Internet users as of December 2015; which is over 40% of the world’s population.
Wireless Wi-Fi connections and connected mobile devices will generate 68% of all Internet traffic in 2017…
Around 3 billion searches are made daily on Google.
September 2014 saw the highest number of websites connected to the Internet, with 1 billion web pages; but the number declined and is expected to reach mid-2016 again
On average e-commerce sites take 7 seconds to load.
Google uses site speed as a ranking factor. So high speed web hosting gained importance.
On the Internet every second counts and 1 second delay in loading your website can translate into a 7% loss in conversion statistics and up to 40% of Internet users will abandon your website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. 40% of Internet users, i.e. more than 1 billion people, have purchased products or goods online. You can get up to 8 out of 10 consumers to buy from your website if you offer free shipping.
In a US survey 51% of consumers cited a slow loading site as the main reason for abandoning an online purchase.
With a frequency of up to 40% shoppers visit at least 3 websites before making purchases online or in physical stores, hence the importance of making your website attractive and easy to navigate, trying by all means possible to be superior to your competition.
According to studies the human attention span of websites has been reduced from 12 to 9 seconds, so short sentences of high impact and very attractive images take a decisive role in the performance of websites.
